Shanghai Triad

Shanghai Triad 1995

yáo ā yáoyáo dào wài qiáo

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

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3.69 Beginner Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 90%

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song; to sing HSK 1
míng bai clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize HSK 1
èr two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid HSK 1
kǒu mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls HSK 1
yuǎn far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc) HSK 1
son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub- HSK 1
zhēn de really, truly, indeed HSK 1
chóng to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer HSK 1
five; 5 HSK 1
wǎn evening; night; late HSK 1
zuó tiān yesterday HSK 1
páo (of an animal) to paw (the ground) HSK 1
how; which HSK 1
nán difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good HSK 1
bié de else; other HSK 1
shǎo few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom HSK 1
ma mama; mommy; mother HSK 1
duō shǎo number; amount; somewhat HSK 1
xiè xie to thank; thanks; thank you HSK 1
ma; mom; mother HSK 1
wǎn shang evening; night; in the evening HSK 1
four; 4 HSK 1
huí lai to return; to come back HSK 1
míng tiān tomorrow HSK 1
shuì to sleep; to lie down HSK 1
shēn shang on the body; at hand; among HSK 1
men plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals HSK 1
zǎo early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely HSK 1
Zuò surname Zuo HSK 1
穿 穿 chuān to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread HSK 1
to shout HSK 1
mén gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) HSK 1
zhèng zài just at (that time); right in (that place); right in the middle of (doing sth) HSK 1
nán rén a man; a male; men HSK 1
wán to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wàn]); to keep sth for entertainment HSK 1
zhàn station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization; website HSK 1
bié ren other people; others; other person HSK 1
rén woman HSK 1
xiào to laugh; to smile; to laugh at HSK 1
sòng to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with HSK 1
diàn huà telephone; phone call; phone number HSK 1
nín you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你) HSK 1
jìn to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound HSK 1
xiē those HSK 1
xiān early; prior; former; in advance; first HSK 1
gāo high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific) HSK 1
to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把: to mark the following noun as a direct object) HSK 1
zhù to live; to dwell; to stay; to reside; to stop; (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt) HSK 1
fàng to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks) HSK 1
háng row; line; commercial firm; line of business; profession; to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column HSK 1